Improvement in corn-planters



J. V. CLOYD. Corn-Planter.

Patented Fb. 5,1878.

N.PE`TERS, PHOTO LTMOGRAPHER WASHINGTON D t UNITED STATES PATENT/OFFICE.

JOHN V. CLOYD, OF WHITLEY COURT-HOUSE, KENTUCKY.

||v|PRoVE|v| ENT IN CORN-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 200,029, dated February 5, 1878; application tiled April 11, 1877.

To all whom. 'it may concern:

Beit known that I, J QHN V. CLOYD, of Whitley Court-House, in the county of VVhi't-l ley and State of Kentucky, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Corn-Planters, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specication.

I use witlrmy planter an opening and covering plow, carried by a beam, upon which the corn-hopper is arranged, and the seed-dropping slide of which is operated from an axle supported in bearings upon two oppositelyinclined side braces for the plowstandards, and which axle is turned, to operatethe slide device, by carrying-wheels arranged in such relation to the plows, the plow-beam, and the handles as to hold the machine steady while planting and cause it to run easy.

The seed-conducting tube is arranged in rear of the opening-plow, and the hopper is above said tube at one side of the beam. The bottom of the hopper is half open and half closed, the seed-conducting tube being beneath the open part, and the seed-dropping slide works in a guide above the closed part, so that the mortise .in the slide will be brought over the closed part to ll with the seed, and tlien carry and drop it through`the open part. The hopper has a covered partition near its bottom, and from which depends a brush, just above the inner edge of the closed part, and projects into the mortise of the slide, which moves back and forth with the side walls of the mortise in contact with the opposite ends of the brush, which crosses said mortise, and extends down to th top of the closed part of the bottom.

The obj ect of this arrangement is to form the end of the mortise next to the conductor by the brush, so that when thc slide is drawn into the seed-hopper to flll the mortise the brush will formV the outer end of said mortise, and prevent the corn from passing out. The reverse movement of the slide brings the corn in the mortise against the brush, and, pushing' it outward over the conductor, allows the corn to drop from the mortise into said conductor.

In this way the bottom of the mortise, formed planter embracing my invention; Fig. 2, a front elevation, showing the device for operating the dropping-slide; Fig. 3, a top vlew of the dropping-slide; Fig.-,4, a vertical secf n tion through the hopper and its droppingslide, showing the arran ement of the brush within the mortise of sai( slide; Fig. 5, ahor1- zontal section of the hopper, on line a' of Fig. 4; and Fig. 6, a cross-section on hne y y of Fig. 5. q

The opening-plow A is secured tof one side of the beam I, and the covering-plow 1s secured to the other side of said beam 'in rear of the plow A. The corn-conductor C is secured beneath the beam, at the sidel thereof, and in rear of the plow A, and the seed-hopper D 1s secured upon the beam above the conductor. Y

The standards of the plows are braced by braces extending in opposite oblique directions from the standards to the beam, and in these braces are the bearings of a transverse axle, N, having-wheels H H thereon, outside of the plows, said axle being arranged in rear of the conducting-tube. A small wheel, F, is arranged upon this axle, with acam-shaped knee, F', on its face, which acts upon the lower end of a vertical arm, G, pivoted within a mortlse in the beam, and connected to the slide J, by which the latter is operated within the hopper. The manner of effecting this, to plant in hills, will presently be described.

The bottom of the hopper is partly open and partly closed, and the slide J is adapted to be moved crosswise of the beam, upon the closed part P, between guides. The slide has amortise, c, the bottom of which, when the slide 1s drawn out, is formed by the closed part P of the hopper-bottom, as in Figs. 4 and 5, so that the mortise a fills with seed. The inward movement of this slide carries the mortise out over the conducting-tube and beneath a covl ered partition, b, in the lower portion of the hopper, as in Fig. 4.

' I arrange a brush, c, Figs. 4 and 6, formed of stout bristles, in the lower edge of the hopper-partition b, so as to extend crosswise into the slide-mortise, and form thereby the inner end of said mortise, to prevent the corn from passing out at that point as the slide is drawn out to bring its mortise within the hopper to receive the corn. The inward movement of Y With dust from the corn. Y Y Y Y The outerV end of the Vmortise is formed by Y the slide to drop :the corn forces it against the brush7 and pushes it back into: the mortise-V space, to allow the corn to drop down the'eorr Y Y duotingtubei VThe brush Vcrosses from VoneV side of the mortise to the other, and extends tothe top of the closed part P at the bottom of the mortise. This Vgives an easyrmovement to the slide7 Vand keeps it from being choked S an adjustable plate, L, and that is set in or out and held by a clamp-screw, M, toV increase; or 1 diminish the size of the mortise,Y to regulate the number of Y grains to be plantedin thehills,

VThe outward movement of the slide is Vef-V Y The wheels H H run upon the ground When Y Ythe plows are at their proper depth. The

wheels HV H are twenty-eight inches indiame- Y tei', and the cani-Wheel F is threelinohes in di- Y Y VVVanieter7 which causesthe seed to Vbe dropped the Vproper distance apart forV the'hills. VThis distance can be regulatedby increasing the number of cams, so as to operate the slide a greater number of times: to each revolution of the wheels. 9 Y Y @The planter will plent corn in rows each Way, withY the VaidV of furrowsror marks'J byY u starting correctly at the end of each row.

It willV be noticed that after the seed has been dropped from the' slide-mortise the outer Y' I closed endY of: the mortise'serves toV return the brush to a verticalV position as theslide bringsV the mortise'agan Within the hopper; soY that the brush haseJ movement atits lower endin Vand outzwithzth'e movement of the slide. Y

Y In a corn-planter, the combination, with the Vlnortisedslide J 1a, of 1 the hopper-brush c, ar- Y ranged'to extend intond across said mor#V tiseyand form the Vmovable Vend thereof next Vto the droppingeonduotorfas herein set forth.

JOHN V. CLOYD.

Witnesses: Y Y Y Y THoMAs JESSE EARLY', YVVILLiMr CUMMiNs. 'Y 

